This handbook is the first multi-faceted and cross-disciplinary overview of how cities can be read through the lens of translation. It is critical reading for researchers, scholars and advanced students in translation studies, linguistics and urban studies.
This handbook is the first multi-faceted and cross-disciplinary overview of how cities can be read through the lens of translation. It is critical reading for researchers, scholars and advanced students in translation studies, linguistics and urban studies.
Tong King Lee is Associate Professor of Translation at the University of Hong Kong.
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List of figures and tables List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Thinking cities through translation Part I Key Issues 1. The translational city 2. Rewriting walls in the country you call home: Space as a site for asymmetries 3. Cartography and translation: Mapping and counter-mapping the city 4. Interartefactual translation: Metrolingualism and resemiotization 5. Reclaiming urban spaces through translation: A practitioner's account Part II The macrostructures of urban translation: Policies and institutions 6. Language and translation policies in a bilingual city with a multilingual population: The case of Brussels 7. Translating in occupied towns during the First World War: Between hegemonic policies and local practices 8. Urban translation and the 2020 Tokyo Games 9. Remediating lost memories of the city through translation: Istanbul as a space of remembering 10. Translation in global city Singapore: A holistic embrace in a multilingual milieu? 11. Imperial translational spaces and the politics of languages in Austria-Hungary: The case of Lemberg/Lwów/Lviv 12. Cities and desires: Translating Seoul 13. Translation and controversial monuments in Tallinn Part III Counter-writing cities: Translation as praxis 14. Translation as translanguaging: Acts of distinction in multilingual karate clubs in London 15. Cape Town as a multilingual city: Policies, experiences and ideologies 16. Translation and the struggle for urban symbolic capital in Cairo 17. Translation and trans-scripting: Languaging practices in the city of Athens 18. Countermapping the city in Dakar: A de-authorized translation 19. Migration, hip hop and translation zones in Delhi 20. Translation and translanguaging in artistic performances in Hong Kong Part IV Cities in writing, translation as trope 21. Sites of translation in Melbourne 22. La flâneuse montréalaise translates 23. Phantom translation in New Orleans 24. Translation interrupted: Memorial dissonance in Trieste 25. Autophagy as translation 26. Depicting a translational and transcultural city: Lagos in Nigerian writing Index
List of figures and tables List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Thinking cities through translation Part I Key Issues 1. The translational city 2. Rewriting walls in the country you call home: Space as a site for asymmetries 3. Cartography and translation: Mapping and counter-mapping the city 4. Interartefactual translation: Metrolingualism and resemiotization 5. Reclaiming urban spaces through translation: A practitioner's account Part II The macrostructures of urban translation: Policies and institutions 6. Language and translation policies in a bilingual city with a multilingual population: The case of Brussels 7. Translating in occupied towns during the First World War: Between hegemonic policies and local practices 8. Urban translation and the 2020 Tokyo Games 9. Remediating lost memories of the city through translation: Istanbul as a space of remembering 10. Translation in global city Singapore: A holistic embrace in a multilingual milieu? 11. Imperial translational spaces and the politics of languages in Austria-Hungary: The case of Lemberg/Lwów/Lviv 12. Cities and desires: Translating Seoul 13. Translation and controversial monuments in Tallinn Part III Counter-writing cities: Translation as praxis 14. Translation as translanguaging: Acts of distinction in multilingual karate clubs in London 15. Cape Town as a multilingual city: Policies, experiences and ideologies 16. Translation and the struggle for urban symbolic capital in Cairo 17. Translation and trans-scripting: Languaging practices in the city of Athens 18. Countermapping the city in Dakar: A de-authorized translation 19. Migration, hip hop and translation zones in Delhi 20. Translation and translanguaging in artistic performances in Hong Kong Part IV Cities in writing, translation as trope 21. Sites of translation in Melbourne 22. La flâneuse montréalaise translates 23. Phantom translation in New Orleans 24. Translation interrupted: Memorial dissonance in Trieste 25. Autophagy as translation 26. Depicting a translational and transcultural city: Lagos in Nigerian writing Index
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